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The French Embassy on Monday canceled a New York party for a book about Vichy France's collaboration with Nazi Germany because of the author's postscript that says Israel has oppressed Palestinians. (...)

"The French Cultural Attache read it and he was incredibly complimentary," said Callil, who was born in Australia and moved to London where she founded feminist publisher Virago Press and ran publisher Chatto i Windus.

But Callil said Tuesday's party was canceled after "a series of letters from various Jewish fundamentalists complaining. They take a view that that no one can say anything about Jews that is not 100 percent complimentary." She did not identify the letter writers by name. (...)

Uma galeria de arte londrina decidiu retirar da sua exposição alguns quadros do pintor surrealista Hans Bellmer para não chocar a comunidade muçulmana, denunciou hoje uma das curadoras da exposição. (...)

“A razão da decisão foi, simplesmente, para não chocar a população do bairro de Whitechapel, a maioria muçulmana”, explicou.(...)

Entre as obras de Bellmer (1902-1975), figuram bonecas de jovens raparigas nuas, em poses degeneradas, em protesto contra os ideais da raça ariana promovidos pelos nazis. (...)